Emily JenkinsPandya MECC Coordinator Bath North East Somerset

Emily Jenkins-Pandya- MECC Co-ordinator Bath & North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire

Overview • • What is Making Every Contact Count? Links to cancer strategy Making Every Contact Count in the South West Why is MECC relevant for you and how can you get involved?

is Making Every Contact Count? Making Every Contact Count enables organisations and individuals to develop and be able to use a different approach to working with people to address health and wellbeing. Telling people what to do is not the most effective way to help them to change. Making Every Contact Count is about altering how we interact with people through learning how to recognise opportunities to talk to people about their wellbeing.

Benefits of MECC • Staff wellbeing – healthy conversations within the workplace • Patient / Service user benefits – longer, healthier lives • Quality Benefits – Improving quality of services and patient outcomes • Organisational development and change – system-wide prevention and early intervention

The need for MECC

MECC in the NHS • “The Provider must develop and maintain an organisational plan to ensure that Staff use every contact that they have with Service Users and the public as an opportunity to maintain or improve health and wellbeing, in accordance with the principles and using the tools comprised in Making Every Contact Count Guidance. ” • - NHS England 2016/17 NHS Standard Contract Service Conditions

High Intensity Interventions Extended Brief Interventions Very Brief Interventions Specialist Practitioners Staff who regularly come into contact with people for 30 minutes or more who are at higher risk Staff who have an opportunity to encourage and support people who’s health and wellbeing could be at risk For everyone in direct contact with the general public To raise awareness motivate and signpost people to help them improve their health and wellbeing. Behaviour change interventions mapped to NICE Behaviour Change: Individual Approaches https: //www. nice. org. uk/Guidance/PH 49

MECC Cancer Prevention “We will do this by engaging clinicians, commissioners and local authority providers in new initiatives to change behaviour, increasing public awareness of risk factors and health promotion, especially with vulnerable groups. ”

Early Diagnosis • MECC can support early diagnosis by: • • • Promoting screening uptake Promoting cancer campaigns Promoting healthy lifestyles, getting more active, quitting smoking, achieving a healthy weight, drinking less alcohol

Living with and beyond Cancer • MECC skills can be used to: • Support health optimization pre and post surgery/ treatment. • Reduce and manage long term consequences of treatment. • Support and signpost family members of cancer patients.

MECC in the South West • MECC SW steering group Strategy : • We are using the Wessex Model to make MECC about long-term organisational change • Coordinated and consistent approach to support system-wide change • Ensuring organisational readiness (STP level buy-in) • Ensuring staff readiness and training • Robust review and evaluation process to develop the future implementation of MECC.

Why is MECC relevant for you and how can you get involved? • MECC will be rolling out in acute trusts during 2018. • MECC leads will be planning implementation and training, including prioritisation of staff groups. • Make contact with your local MECC lead, identify any priority areas, and support staff who are identified for training.

Contact Details Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucester: Kate. yorke@bristol. gov. uk B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire: EJenkins-Pa@Swindon. gov. uk (Emily) Somerset: LBulmer@somerset. gov. uk (Louise) Gloucestershire: Tracy. Marshall@gloucestershire. gov. uk Devon: Natalie. Winterton@devon. gov. uk